We are currently looking for a Security Architect to join an existing team with one of our financial services clients. This requires specific experience in Microsoft technologies.
The role will be managing the end-to-end solution design and delivering architecture design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns.
Alongside the creation of high-level designs, the role will involve publishing new architecture patterns, key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.
Cybersecurity Expertise:
- Identify and drive security capability growth relating to the Microsoft security solutions and governance around consumption and intent to use.
- Lead security conversations across the bank showcasing how they align to our business priorities.
- Experience writing and creating security business cases to showcase the value in technical solutions.
- Experience performing security gap analysis in order to review different products with shared capabilities.
- Understanding of Microsoft Licensing
- Experience designing security reference architectures, patterns, and reusable templates for development and platform teams.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks and security benchmarks, including CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, and how they apply to cloud-native apps.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and translate technical concepts to business stakeholders.
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with strong problem-solving abilities, a strategic approach to cloud security architecture, and a passion for continuous improvement.
- Uses compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others; stepping up to address difficult issues and saying what needs to be said.
- Ability to operate effectively even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear; holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Ability to apply knowledge of business and the market to making good and timely decisions that keeps the organization moving forward.
Platform & Technology:
- BizzDesign, Archi, or generic UML visualisation experience for high-level designs.
- Working proficiency in Jira for project & tasks management.
- Working proficiency in Confluence for documentation.
Architecture & Design:
- Produce, manage, and update end-to-end solution designs in line with reference architecture & business requirements.
- Articulate and publish key design decision records and options to ensure all solutions follow a logical, transparent decision-making process.
- Articulate, publish, and ensure approval of any design deviations resulting in technical debt
- Ensure any technical risks or issues arising from a solution design are recorded and mitigated.
- Produces, manages and translates the requirements into the architecture for that solution, ensuring technology and services meet the customer needs and expected business outcomes.
- Ensures the design of the solutions are efficient, timely and cost effective throughout the project lifecycle.
- Clear understanding of both the motivations of the business and technical security.
- Promote strong documentation and clerkship.
Governance:
- Ensures all high-level designs, architecture patterns, decision records, deviation requests, and technical risks or issue records undergo architectural and project governance processes.
- Ensure all architecture artefacts undergo appropriate peer review prior to design authority presentation.
- Present publications at technical design authorities for input, feedback, and approval.
Risk and Dependency Management:
- Effectively manages and escalates both technical and project risks or issues.
- Articulates solutions and remediation steps to technical risks & issues.
- Ability to map design decisions to resultant technical risks & issues to articulate the cause and rationale which leads to any negatively impacting change.
Leadership & Teamwork
- Acts as the primary technical leader within their programmes.
- Provides technical thought leadership in their domain of expertise.
- Establishes strong stakeholder management networks with the regular communication around project deliverables to executives.
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